Why tell stories?

• Teaching Storytelling: A Position Statement from the Committee on Storytelling. (National Council of Teachers of English)
  http://www.ncte.org/about/over/positions/category/curr/107637.htm
• Junior Great Books: The Value of Folktales- discusses the values that folktales hold and gives explanations for how they enrich the quality of life.
  http://www.greatbooks.org/typ/146.0.html
• Better Kid Care: Storytelling- brief guidelines for selecting and preparing stories to share with children, focusing on four major categories of telling (including well-suited examples) for traditional, rhythmic, main character, and felt board stories.
  http://www.nncc.org/Literacy/better.storytell.html
• Discussion about Stories Suite 101 : Folklore- online articles about issues and concepts found in fairy tales, myths, and their portrayal, with opportunity given for discussion and commentary. http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/folklore
• Sources for the Analysis and Interpretation of Folk & Fairy Tales- because stories have more than just entertainment value, as the title of the site mentions, it provides extensive lists of sources that deal with the analysis of issues and concepts found in fairy and folk tales. http://www.folkandfairy.org
• Encyclopedia Mythica: Folklore- extensive online dictionary providing short definitions or descriptions of creatures and places of myth or folklore legend from all cultures. Everything from Abominable snowman to Zwarte madam.http://www.pantheon.org/areas/folklore/folklore
• Project Gutenberg- “ the Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books,” this site allows searching for texts and is a resource for finding and then downloading folk/fairy tales online.http://promo.net/pg
• Tales of the Punjab - the online text of the 1894 book edited by Flora Annie Steel, including 43 different folktales, as told by the people living in the Punjab .http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/steel/punjab/punjab.html
• Research Guide: FOLKLORE- reference list developed by the library at Brigham Young University . Includes select books, journals, and indexes pertaining to folklore.http://www.lib.byu.edu/~english/ResearchGuides/rg_folklore.htm
• Tell Me A Story- an annotated bibliography of stories, books, articles, etc… about and for storytelling. http://www.web.net/~story/mbstory.htm
• Urban Legends Reference Pages- this is exactly what the title claims, an extensive resource for rumors and urban legends, including history of the rumor, and an analysis for some to help determine if they are true or not. http://www.snopes2.com
• Storyteller.Net- a multipurpose site for storytellers including news and articles about storytelling, an archive of text and audio stories, and a database for finding tellers in your area. http://www.sto
• Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute: Folktales- curriculum units for teachers about a wide variety of topics about folktales. Each unit includes an introduction, overview, lesson plans, plus many additional activities.http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/2ryteller.net
• Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute: The Oral Tradition- developed in the same format as the folk tale curriculum units listed in the site above, these lesson plans, unit overviews, and activities cover a variety of topics about oral tradition. http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1984/4

Story Research and Resources:

• University of Houston: Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
• University of Houston: Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling (alignment to standards)
• 21 Century Connections - Digital Storytelling
• David Brear's Digital Story Telling Resources
• Wes Fryer's Digital Storytelling Wiki
• Jason Ohler - Art, Storytelling, Technology, and Education
• Storytelling and Literacy
• The Art of Storytelling
• Technology and Techniques of Storytelling
• Assessing Digital Stories and New Media Narrative Projects
• Green Screen Storytelling (Picture in Picture / Chroma Key)
• The World of Digital Storytelling (Education Leadership Journal)
• Visual Portrait of a Story